Drug taking

• Drug taking=

  • Legal
  • could by opium(heroine) at the chemist
• “Well sir, every day, ay, and twice and thrice in the same day”

  • Stevenson is describing Hyde as being desperate for drugs to turn him back to Jekyll
• “This day is wanted bitter bad, sir, whatever for“

  • Description of the potion
  • Focuses on the evilness of drug taking
• “Torture and deform the sufferer“ and make the sufferer “Eager to find this drug”

  • Drugs are portrayed as evil
• “I knew well that I risked death; for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity, might by the least scruple of an overdose”

  • The use of drug taking leads to poor decisions
  • Stevenson is really worried about the potential of an overdose, which would risk death
  • We can read the whole story of Jekyll and Hyde as a warning against experimenting with drug taking